Tim Yates, Tim Palm and Vahakn Matossian (L-R) have won the KTH Innovation grand prize of 50,000 Swedish kroner for their ‘LoopFree project’, which was created during the #MTFLabs in Stockholm last month.

#MTFLabs at the legendary ZKM in Karlsruhe: a 24-hour intervention from Saturday, 27th of October, taking forward a bunch of awesome projects and collaborations from #MTF Stockholm, through performance, hacking and experimentation.

It’s hard to imagine someone who absolutely embodies the synthesis of cutting edge scientific research and human creative expression that we champion at Music Tech Fest more than the inspirational Professor Danica Kragic.

New technologies are often blamed for an array of societal problems including precarious employment, economic exclusion and social division. The reason for this impact is clear: all technologies are human technologies.

“It was a brilliant community of people ranging from neuroscientists to musicians, to projection mapping and fashion designers. It was an orchestra of mediums, and with all the collaborative excitement surrounding us, we had to push it to the max…”

“On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2017, the European Commission will announce the three winners of the 2017 Women Innovators Prize. Stromatolite’s Michela Magas is one of nine finalists for these prestigious awards…”

The newly formed Swedish company Sojaner AB has patented technologies deveolped with #MusicBricks. The Swedish Patent Application No. 1650637-0 filed – “Headphone system” is under embargo until November 2017.

The #MusicBricks Tangible User Interface – the Ircam-developed R-IoT – has been batch tested for commercial production. Talks are being conducted between #MusicBricks and major global distributers for large scale deployment.